Other Attempts
Giese's treatment regimen has since undergone revision (the second version omits the use of ribavirin). Two of 25 patients treated under the first protocol survived. A further 10 patients have been treated under the revised protocol, with a further two survivors.
In June 2011, yet another young child survived infection with rabies without receiving the vaccine before showing symptoms. An eight-year-old girl named Precious Reynolds, of Willow Creek, California, contracted the disease sometime in April 2011, but she did not receive medical care until mid-May, after her grandmother took her to the doctor because of flulike symptoms that grew so serious, her grandmother said they began to resemble polio. The hospital said doctors followed the protocol first established with Giese. Precious was placed in a drug-induced coma as she received antiviral medications. She spent two weeks in intensive care undergoing the treatments, and immediately showed her immune system was strong. She was then moved to the hospital's general pediatric unit.
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